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So I have the acer a500 with the stock ics and rooted. i was using my tablet just fine last night and later on went to use it again and now its stuck on the acer screen. i have tried the resets for recovery aND IT does not work. its still stuck on the acer screen. can anyone help me? please. my tablet is the gen2 when i received the ics update if that helps. and as mentioned it was fine until last night. is there a way i can reinstall it with the sd card? i would love the stock image if possible.

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nishka256 said:
So I have the acer a500 with the stock ics and rooted. i was using my tablet just fine last night and later on went to use it again and now its stuck on the acer screen. i have tried the resets for recovery aND IT does not work. its still stuck on the acer screen. can anyone help me? please. my tablet is the gen2 when i received the ics update if that helps. and as mentioned it was fine until last night. is there a way i can reinstall it with the sd card? i would love the stock image if possible.
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Download a stock acer image and place it on a MicroSD under the name of update.zip then boot into recovery
But yes it is the wrong forum section - should be in Q&A doesn't bother me too much but it irritates devs because it's the development forum
Sent from my Iconia A500 using Tapatalk 2

ok
hi, thank you, please im not good at this. can you tell me a link for the stock? and tell me how do i boot it?
thank you

so can anyone direct ne to a sstock zip file of ics for the gen2 acer a500 tablet that works. i have no idea how my tablet got messed up. its stuck on the acer screen. ive tried so many things. i have tried the reset pinhole button, i have downloaded a lot of zip files or roms and tried to do the volume, power button and all i get is a robot with red triangle. i cannot use usb because my computer wont read it not even after downloading drivers. anyone help me please?

nishka256 said:
so can anyone direct ne to a sstock zip file of ics for the gen2 acer a500 tablet that works. i have no idea how my tablet got messed up. its stuck on the acer screen. ive tried so many things. i have tried the reset pinhole button, i have downloaded a lot of zip files or roms and tried to do the volume, power button and all i get is a robot with red triangle. i cannot use usb because my computer wont read it not even after downloading drivers. anyone help me please?
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I'm not sure what may have happened but the easiest way to fix your tab is to downgrade back to HC using an acer utility called an "EUU". you will need your cpuid for this so i hope you have saved it somewhere.
Look here for 'jazzyjames' tutorial How to rollback to HC - for instructions on how to do this and a link to timmydeans HC EUU - also take a look thru my cpuid post (link in sig) for loads of info and links and even how to get yr cpuid if u dont have it

thanks i tried it and follow instructions numerous times. evry time i get to the step where it says "entering acer download mode on my tablet" on the EUU program on my laptop it says it "failed" so i try and try again with the same results. im running out of options. i dont know what to do.

maybe give this a shot. I've never had to use it myself but it's probably worth a shot.
How to unbrick your tablet -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1699277

oh heck that doesnt sound too good, i've not heard of the actual EUU "failing" guess thats the result of the usb issue you spoke of!
The "update.zip" method, you have 2 choices here See this thread for all the Official Acer Stock Roms - Ensure you download a "Full" rom and not just one of the update packages....instructions are in the first post...
You need to extract the update.zip and it may need to be decrypted as I said instructions for all this are in the OP!!
method2 - I've tried this once!! I got pretty frustrated real quick. Its a buggy chinese rom - took me a good hour to finally get into flashing a recovery, but it did work and plenty of others
have posted success with it... drkalo has a guide right here
Failing that m8 yr options are very, very few...
Try on a different computer so we can rule that out...or not!
or try to troubleshoot the usb issue....there are the only 2 ways via sdcard or pc/usb...
thinking about it now, in your post you said
"i cannot use usb because my computer wont read it not even after downloading drivers. anyone help me please?"
Not sure I follow, wouldnt have thought you'd get all that way to download mode without USB drivers to begin with.
You have debugging enabled in settings and you connect your cable to your pc but your tab does not show up on your PC in Device Manager???
Are you still on the stock bootloader??what about recovery??

this is what comes up
this is what comes up after trying this methid

nishka256 said:
this is what comes up after trying this methid
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So this window that pops up saying 'failed' and with instructions to go into apx mode - did u do this? what happened after you did it?
I haven't seen this particular error but normally with the downgrade process you do not have yr tab connected UNTIL you see the "cant detect your iconia tab" window (with similar instructions to enter apx mode manually) did you see this window at all? you do not enter your cpuid until AFTER you have put yr tab in apx mode and connected to yr PC, then the green status bar shows and then you should see "Congratulations".
To check you are in apx mode your tab screen is black and the power light is ON.
Now before you connect yr tab to yr PC open up Device Manager (pc) so you can make sure the apx/usb driver loads when you connect the cable - it will show under "USB Controllers". Once you can confirm the drivers are installed then you should be all good
The drivers are a bit of a pain as there are different ones for each different 'mode' of your tab i.e
USB driver that allows you to see the contents of yr tab from yr PC
ADB driver that allows yr tab and pc to communicate by sending commands to yr tab via yr PC
APX Driver which you normally only see while running HC, but yr PC can sometimes report an error with the "apx device" if the drivers have not installed properly
Acer Boot/Recovery Driver which NEEDS to be installed for any type of nvflash or EUU flash to be successful
Fastboot Driver if you have flashed bootloader v3 up this driver will load when you enter "Fastboot"
This is why folks have trouble with drivers and why we keep telling them "reinstall the drivers!!!" The Acer drivers from acer support AND the Google adb drivers which you can get from the first post of my cpuid thread (link in sig) the zip also has the fastboot drivers and saves you having to download the full android sdk. Having device manager OPEN while attempting any type of flash definitely helps you see whats happening - or not - driver wise...

[Q] Stuck at stage two (unlocking bootloader)

Hi guys !
I'm trying to install a custom rom on my A500 but I don't get to unlock the bootloader...
I stuck with blackthund3r tool at :
Flashing Bootloader (EBT) stage two - uploading image...
I'm on ICS OTA 4.0.3 and the bootloader is 0.03.12-ICS
I follow all the threads talking about that but did'nt worked...
I checked all the drivers but I don't get it...
somebody have a useful advice ?
Thanks !

babysugar said:
Hi guys !
I'm trying to install a custom rom on my A500 but I don't get to unlock the bootloader...
I stuck with blackthund3r tool at :
Flashing Bootloader (EBT) stage two - uploading image...
I'm on ICS OTA 4.0.3 and the bootloader is 0.03.12-ICS
I follow all the threads talking about that but did'nt worked...
I checked all the drivers but I don't get it...
somebody have a useful advice ?
Thanks !
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couple apxFlash pictorials here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32905041&postcount=20
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25891744&postcount=44
You need the drivers installed
1. Acer website for the acer drivers
2.zip file attached for google/fastboot drivers
Ive attached a .jpg too, u need to have the apx device listed in hardware/printers as shown
3. with apxFlash try dumping your ".bct" when u see that window
4. you can try the afterOTA tool too...
5. if the auto tools dont work then you will need to rollback to HC using tdv4 EUU
6. have a look thru the OP of the cpuid thread for more background info on all things acer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25429111#post25429111

I've never had this much trouble before.
Ok. A little back story first. I'm not a moron, I have a myTouch 3G Sapphire 32a Fender rooted using the gold card method, LG G2x - P999 Rooted running CM10, and a SGH-T999 Stock rooted (That's a Galaxy S3 for those who don't know).
I have a friend that got an Acer Iconia a500 tablet a year ago. He's not a power user, doesn't know anything about rooting. All he did was play games on it. One day it wouldn't turn on, the screen was blank. Occasionally it would freeze at the Acer logo, but it would never boot up.
Now it's stuck in APX mod due to him pushing a bunch of buttons(idk how he got it into APX mode so don't ask), so there is absolutely no way to boot the tablet. He never turned on USB debugging, and I can't get into the tablet to turn it on because it's stuck in apx mode.
I must stress this!
I have been working on this tablet for 3 weeks now, and read countless posts about how to fix the exact problem that I'm having with this tablet, the only drawback is: step 1 is always, "Turn on USB Debugging." That is IMPOSSIBLE for me to do at this point.
Here is list of what I do know:
Hardware - Acer Iconia a500, APX Driver Version - 1.0.1.0 Released 4/1/2010 Shows as APX in Devices. Shows as Acer USB Boot-recovery driver in device manager.
Software
ADB info - Android SDK rev.20
ADB ver 1.0.29
Windows 7 64-bit completely up-to-date
Commands: adb get-state, get-serial ------- returns, unknown
Commands: adb remount, root, usb ------- returns, "error: device not found"
Command: adb devices -------- returns no value at all.
Programs used for rooting - AfterOTA 1.09, EUUS v3, blackThun3r A500 Manager
I have the CPUID, and SKB (I was somehow able to acquire those in one of my attempts to flash the stock rom)
What I don't know:
What version of Android OS is on the tablet. I'm pretty sure it has ICS, but he was deathly afraid of downloading any updates, even app updates even though I told him that all updates should be installed a.s.a.p. So there's a chance that it's still running HC.
Now here is my problem other than being stuck in APX mode. I have tried AfterOTA, it won't detect anything past Driver Installed on the Tablet information screen because USB debugging isn't enabled. So I can't use most of the functions of that program.
blackthund3r APX Flash v0.4 - Will get the tablet into the bootloader mode where it says:
Acer Iconia APX Mode in the upper right with a glowing yellow Acer logo in the center of the screen, nothing is flashing like the APX flasher says, I have reinstalled the drivers hundred of times with the same results.
Hangs at, "Flashing Bootloader (EBT) stage two - uploading image..."
EUUS v3 - Says, "Acer Iconia not detected"
(I had a screenshot posted here, but stupid forum limitations wouldn't let me. You could see what's going on if it let me post this.)
I do the reset procedure and it just goes back to the same message.
It will go into a screen on the tablet that says "Entering Acer Download Mode" Then EUUS tells me to do the reset procedure again, and this is a continuous loop that results in nothing being flashed. If I ignore that message and just continue nothing happens.
I also have a file called a500-hc.bat that runs nvflash and it gives an error that leads me to believe that a partition on the tablet is corrupted. Everyone says that EUUS v3 should fix this and flash back to original stock, but it obviously doesn't work.
Any help that I could get would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more information, just ask, and I'll do my best to get it. The tablet is (for lack of a better word) bricked, so I'm very limited on what sort of software info I can give you straight from the tab. Please Please Please help. And thank you in advance.

APX Flash Tool wont boot in Acer Download Mode

Hi experts
First of all i had an A500 and was able to do all fine but i ve sold it and now 1/2 year later i want to flash ICS Bootloader for better Roms to my girlfriends A500 because of many problems with sleep of death and thats annoying.
However, i used the blackthunder3r APX Flash Utility V0.4 and downloaded any bundle (i tried 4 differents) but when i switch the tablet in APX mode (doesnt makes a difference if manual or automatic.both put me in apx mode and the flash tool recognise it as APX device) then in the next step i get a pop up "Bootloader Check" and got asked if i have a Logo and "Entering Acer download mode" on my tablet but i have not.
This is my big problem and i m not able to solve it without your help. i m now trying it since about 3 hours now and knew that with the first tablet it took me only few minutes to have what i need.
drivers on pc seems to be all well but i cant start the flash process without getting into that Acer Download Mode.
right now there is HC 3.01 Bootloader on the tablet. i also tried to flash different Recoverys and flash an other Rom before doing the process but all the time i get stuck on the "bootloader check".
On the Tablet the power light is white and the screen is black (as it should be for APX mode) but i think the communication from the flash tool cant bring the tablet in download mode.
I m open for any tips because i dont have any clue what to do because i ve the feelin´ that i did everything.

try civatos manual nvFlash method...theres a guide in my sig
download the v8 package from civs OP
run v8.bat and cwm 1.7.3 option
do you see the system info window come up (on yr pc)
if you do follow steps and put yr tb in apx mode
does yr tab enter download mode now???
do any errors show??
Do not continue with the process if your tab wont enter download mode
otherwise use timmydeans HC 3.2.1 rom, pre-rooted and cwm preinstalled
then try the v8 bootloader from there OR OTA up to ICS
make sure u keep yr cpuid/sbk backed up somewhere
good luck
rgds dibb

Thanks for the reply but i solved it yesterday.
The problem was that i had flashed a Bootloader from HC to ICS on my old Tablet.
i dont know how or why but on my PC it showed me in blackthund3rs flash tool automatic the SBK Number of my tab ..... but it was the sbk of the old tab.
i figured it out by connecting my tab with afterota and recognised 2 different SBKs.
finally using the blackthund3rs flash tool, entering the correct SBK and then the tablet rebooted from APX Mode into Download Mode with Acer Logo.
For what every reason the flashtool found automatic a SBK of my old tablet and thought it is the SBK of the new one.
Now i m running ICS and all is fine... dont know why i didnt doule checked the SBK. i trusted the tool to much.
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[Q] Mostly bricked - need some guidance

Hi all, yes, noob here.
I has successfully rooted and put ICS on my A500 with Skrilax_CZ`s bootloader V8.
I decided to go back to stock, however ended up with HC running on an ICS 4.0.3 Kernel (2.6.39.4+)
I made the stupid mistake to try to flash again with a "stock' ROM, and A500 is now is a 'dead like' state.
No Recovery, or Fastboot - Turns on but tablet screen blank and only 'life' is when connected to PC via USB it does show in control panel/devices as "Acer Picasso USB Boot-recovery driver". But no driver letter in explorer.
Pin hole reset/Power doesn't do anything either
The only thing I have managed to do is use DotNetDector.exe, do the pinhole/reset, enter CPUID and the A500 starts, vibrates and shows ACER on the screen with 'Entering Acer download mode'. Hoewever, DotnetDectors then shows "Sorry upgrade process failed"
CPUID, SBK number are known.
I have clearly screwed it up! and wondering if this is recoverable. Any help/guidance welcome.

Fixed
Doh!
OK I fixed it myself, I tried a different a500apx file and it started working. Used;
V8-Thor_1.7.3_recovery.a500apx
Thx all
Ripmyundies said:
Hi all, yes, noob here.
I has successfully rooted and put ICS on my A500 with Skrilax_CZ`s bootloader V8.
I decided to go back to stock, however ended up with HC running on an ICS 4.0.3 Kernel (2.6.39.4+)
I made the stupid mistake to try to flash again with a "stock' ROM, and A500 is now is a 'dead like' state.
No Recovery, or Fastboot - Turns on but tablet screen blank and only 'life' is when connected to PC via USB it does show in control panel/devices as "Acer Picasso USB Boot-recovery driver". But no driver letter in explorer.
Pin hole reset/Power doesn't do anything either
The only thing I have managed to do is use DotNetDector.exe, do the pinhole/reset, enter CPUID and the A500 starts, vibrates and shows ACER on the screen with 'Entering Acer download mode'. Hoewever, DotnetDectors then shows "Sorry upgrade process failed"
CPUID, SBK number are known.
I have clearly screwed it up! and wondering if this is recoverable. Any help/guidance welcome.
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APX MODE driver and stuck in APX mode issues

Tab is an acer iconia a500 8gb version running CWM, and HC bootloader. Last ROM on honeycomb was flexreaper but I forget version. I hadn't used tab in a while.
I wanted to let you know how I resolved it. I spent 2 days trying to upgrade to ICS bootloader and touch recovery. I almost gave up with a partial brick of a tab. I was no longer able to boot a ROM but could get to APX mode (sort of APX mode) where screen was black and power LED was on by using manual process. Hold in power and Reset for 3 seconds then release power while holding reset for another second. Tab would be recognized as APX mode device by the computer and flash tools but I couldn't get any of the tools to do the flashing. Blackthunder and nvflash failed with various errors. I found out after hours of trying this was not really APX mode. See below.
1. To fix USB driver issue. I had to install the Naked USB driver and Google USB driver from SDK package. All links found here on XDA. Only at this point did the tab show as a valid working APX device in devices and printers. Drivers still showed as unknown but worked. In Device manager was showing under USB host controller as acer usb recovery device or something like that.At this point I had all drivers installed. Acer driver, Google USB, and naked driver. I installed in that order until device was working on win 7 x64.
2. APX mode is described in some places as blank screen with power LED on but this is like stage one of apx mode. You still need the tool (nvflash or blackthunder) to get you to the point where the screen says APX mode in white font in the left upper corner and you are truely in APX mode. Use the auto process in the tool until you get there. My tab also had the word acer in large green font in the middle of the LCD when in true APX mode. I was never able to get to full APX mode using manual APX process on tab. This seems to place the tab in an APX ready state. Then you can use nvflash, a500manager, or blackthunder auto tools to get to full apx mode. Tab does a quick reboot or something and vibrates when going from APX ready to full APX mode with the screen going from blank to where it says apx mode in small white letters and acer in green large font (middle of screen). After I was in APX mode The only thing that worked was BABSECTOR or BADSECTOR tool to flash it. I ran the a501a.bat and then the a501b.bat inside the extracted folder to get ICS V8 bootloader and touch recovery installed. Once I used the BADSECTOR tool the process was quick and flashed in a matter of a few minutes. In 2 minutes I had completed what was going on for almost 2 days. Wow! I almost gave up. You can edit the script or just insert your SBK at the prompt.
I found the BAD or BABSECTOR process listed in a short post comment on another forum using google searches. There wasn't a lot of detail. Just the order of file use and that it it worked for someone who was having similar issues. You obviously need your SBK.
Hope this helps someone. Good luck!
Auto signature below is wrong. I had changed to flexreaper ROM.

smd11873 said:
Tab is an acer iconia a500 8gb version running CWM, and HC bootloader. Last ROM on honeycomb was flexreaper but I forget version. I hadn't used tab in a while.
I wanted to let you know how I resolved it. I spent 2 days trying to upgrade to ICS bootloader and touch recovery. I almost gave up with a partial brick of a tab. I was no longer able to boot a ROM but could get to APX mode (sort of APX mode) where screen was black and power LED was on by using manual process. Hold in power and Reset for 3 seconds then release power while holding reset for another second. Tab would be recognized as APX mode device by the computer and flash tools but I couldn't get any of the tools to do the flashing. Blackthunder and nvflash failed with various errors. I found out after hours of trying this was not really APX mode. See below.
1. To fix USB driver issue. I had to install the Naked USB driver and Google USB driver from SDK package. All links found here on XDA. Only at this point did the tab show as a valid working APX device in devices and printers. Drivers still showed as unknown but worked. In Device manager was showing under USB host controller as acer usb recovery device or something like that.At this point I had all drivers installed. Acer driver, Google USB, and naked driver. I installed in that order until device was working on win 7 x64.
2. APX mode is described in some places as blank screen with power LED on but this is like stage one of apx mode. You still need the tool (nvflash or blackthunder) to get you to the point where the screen says APX mode in white font in the left upper corner and you are truely in APX mode. Use the auto process in the tool until you get there. My tab also had the word acer in large green font in the middle of the LCD when in true APX mode. I was never able to get to full APX mode using manual APX process on tab. This seems to place the tab in an APX ready state. Then you can use nvflash, a500manager, or blackthunder auto tools to get to full apx mode. Tab does a quick reboot or something and vibrates when going from APX ready to full APX mode with the screen going from blank to where it says apx mode in small white letters and acer in green large font (middle of screen). After I was in APX mode The only thing that worked was BABSECTOR or BADSECTOR tool to flash it. I ran the a501a.bat and then the a501b.bat inside the extracted folder to get ICS V8 bootloader and touch recovery installed. Once I used the BADSECTOR tool the process was quick and flashed in a matter of a few minutes. In 2 minutes I had completed what was going on for almost 2 days. Wow! I almost gave up. You can edit the script or just insert your SBK at the prompt.
I found the BAD or BABSECTOR process listed in a short post comment on another forum using google searches. There wasn't a lot of detail. Just the order of file use and that it it worked for someone who was having similar issues. You obviously need your SBK.
Hope this helps someone. Good luck!
Auto signature below is wrong. I had changed to flexreaper ROM.
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Hi,
Thanks for your informative post - I had no idea there were different "apx modes".
Can you link where you downloaded your drivers in step 1 and the tools in step 2? If your method actually worked, some links would really be helpful.
Thanks!
Rich